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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

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